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Ajax head coach Peter Bosz was scheduled to hold a pre-match conference at the Friends Arena later on Tuesday. "The feeling that prevails for me is that the final doesn't have this glow that it should have". "We will release a further update in due course, for now our thoughts and condolences are with those in Manchester". "Other people have to decide that", he said.

As Lue spoke to a large group of reporters and some Cavs players got in extra shots following practice, James was noticeably absent from the floor. If the Boston Massacre hadn't sealed the Celtics' fate, surely not having Thomas was the clincher.

The Cavs hadn't lost since Game 4 of last year's Finals, and they came in tied with the 1988-89 Los Angeles "Showtime" Lakers for the longest winning streak in postseason history. "Everybody did their part". "Coming in, I just kept telling myself, you have nothing to lose, just go out there and play", Smart said. "You let a team grab momentum like that, you just knew that last shot was going to go in as soon as it left his hand".

That figure just barely eclipsed the Florida Panthers, a team notoriously hammered for attendance, and Ottawa's attendance percentage was by far the worst of the league's Canadian teams. Then Anderson sat for the rest of the game, which drew some commentary from Pittsburgh's social media team and epitomized the uncharacteristically porous day for Guy Boucher's blue line.

Nashville had tied the score at 1 on Wilson's power-play goal, his second goal of the playoffs, at 19:19 of the second period. It was Anaheim striking first when Chris Wagner buried a rebound past Pekka Rinne for his 2nd playoff goal and a 1-0 lead.

No sooner had last week's wild draft lottery dropped off the radar of the league's devoted UFO spotters ("Lemme guess: Boston goes first, then Lakers at No. On his way to the postgame news conference, the superstar got into an exchange with a fan who heckled him about his rough night. Former first-round pick Marcus Smart, who started in place of Thomas, led the surge with a flurry of three-pointers.